mendell@mcnc.UUCP (02/25/86)
I have a 10 year old neutered male cat. Desperado has been an indoor cat all of his life and has used a kitty box all of his life. From time to time over the years, I have been tempted to place a roll of toilet paper next to the kitty box. The problem is that Desper doesn't always leave everything that he is supposed to leave in the box. He walks away with feces dangling from his rear. If I am around when he uses the box, I check him and clean him up right away. Sometimes I am not around though, and I come home to find smeared evidence on the carpet, on the bedspread, etc. Now that I have a 6 month old baby, I am more and more concerned about this problem. I have never heard of anyone else having this problem with a cat, but if anyone has any advice or suggestions on how to cope (changes in diet, in kitty box, ???) I'd appreciate them.
zzz@mit-eddie.UUCP (Mike Konopik) (02/27/86)
I've seen this sort of thing several times. It always seems to be that (let's get gross here...) the cat swallowed some hair, and it is stuck between two turds, one that comes out and one that doesn't. The latter keeps the former from dropping, and voila, you have a cat with a turd tail, desperately trying to get rid of it any way possible... (yum) We've had less problems with this (and hairballs, too) when we brush the cats frequently to reduce the hair intake. -- -Mike genrad!mit-eddie!zzz (UUCP) ZZZ%MIT-OZ@MIT-MC (ARPA)
pete@valid.UUCP (Pete Zakel) (03/05/86)
> We've had less problems with this (and hairballs, too) when we brush the > cats frequently to reduce the hair intake. > -- > -Mike Another help for hairballs is Petromalt, a petrolatum (sp?) based hairball remedy. I don't know anything about other remedies, since I haven't tried them, but I HAVE used Petromalt and it seems to work just fine. Frequent brushing is still important, though. -- -Pete Zakel (..!{hplabs,amd,pyramid,ihnp4}!pesnta!valid!pete)